荻の葉に露ふきむすぶ秋風もゆふべぞわきて身にはしみける
| ogi no ha ni tsuyu fukimusubu akikaze mo yūbe zo wakite mi ni wa shimikeru | To the blades of cogon grass Carrying drenching dewdrops The autumn breeze At eventide, particularly, Pierces my heart. |
Kaoru
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Chūgū nyōbō uta’awase 6
Kokiden nyōgo uta’awase – Chōkyū ni-nen 05
Round Five
Fresh bracken
Left
かりびとのとやまをこめてやきしよりしたもえいづるのべのさわらび
| karibito no toyama o komete yakishi yori shita moe’izuru nobe no sawarabi | Since hunters All the nearby mountains Have burned Budding beneath is Fresh bracken in the meadows. |
Sagami
9
Right (Win)
花をだにをりてかへらんさわらびはをぎのやけのにいまぞおひいづる
| hana o dani orite kaeran sawarabi wa ogi no yakeno ni ima zo oi’izuru | At least some blossom Let us pick and then return! Fresh bracken On the burned plain of cogon grass Is now a’sprouting! |
Jijū no menoto
10
‘Fresh bracken’ is something which folk of old referred to in various ways, and the latter poem is in keeping with this. ‘At least some blossom / Let us pick and then return!’ is an extremely charming mental image, if one had simply seen it budding, one would wonder why the poet has not sought out some other location before returning home. Moving on to ‘Since hunters / All the nearby mountains’, this is an overly hackneyed, and thus distasteful, expression like ‘on eastern roads’, so the latter poem is superior, isn’t it.
Nishinomiya uta’awase 16
Round Sixteen
Left
荻のはは暮行く風に音すなり我がまつ人のかからましかば
| ogi no ha wa kureyuku kaze ni otosu nari wa ga matsu hito no kakaramashikaba | The cogon grass fronds With the falling twilight breezes Sound out, though Were it the man I’m waiting for It would be better… |
Major Controller of the Left Tametaka
31
Right
逢ふことはかた野にしげる荻の葉の音をばたつな秋ははつとも
| au koto wa katano ni shigeru ogi no ha no oto oba tatsu na aki wa hatsu tomo | Our meeting, so hard: On the hillside thickly growing, O, cogon grass fronds Do not make a sound! For with autumn’s end I have had enough, yet.. |
Horikawa, Court Lady to Her Highness
32
I feel that the emotions encompassed by the sound of the wind in ‘Were it the man I’m waiting for / It would be better’ sounded more striking than ‘On the hillside thickly growing, / O, cogon grass fronds’.
Nishinomiya uta’awase 15
Cogon grass and the Same
Round Fifteen
Left
うき人を驚かすべき方ぞなきうらやましきは荻の上風
| ukibito o odorokasubeki kata zo naki urayamashiki wa ogi no uwakaze | That cruel girl: To make her notice me I have no way at all! How I envy The wind blowing o’er the cogon grass! |
Lecturer Kakuga
29
Right
荻原やよかぜぞつらき音せずはねてこそ人を夢にみましか
| ogiwara ya yokaze zo tsuraki oto sezu wa nete koso hito o yume ni mimashika | O, plain of cogon grass, How unkind is the wind tonight! For without your sound, then Indeed, I would sleep that she I would glimpse within my dreams… |
The Head
30
The conception of love sounds superior at present in envying the ‘wind blowing o’er the cogon grass’ than it does in the ‘unkind is the wind tonight’.
Kinkai wakashū 531
Kinkai wakashū 212
Kinkai wakashū 211
Kinkai wakashū 186
Daikōtaigōgū daijin kiyosuke-ason ke uta’awase 28
Round Twenty-Eight
Left
わぎもこをかたまつよひの秋風はをぎのうはばをよきてふかなん
| wagimoko o kata matsu yoi no akikaze wa ogi no uwaba o yokite fukanan | For my darling girl I wait filled with longing, tonight I would the autumn wind The cogon grass fronds Pass by in its blowing! |
Shun’e
55
Right (Win)
朝夕におつる涙や恋草のしげみにすがる露と成るらん
| asayū ni otsuru namida ya koigusa no shigemi ni sugaru tsuyu to naruran | Morn and eve My falling tears to Love’s grasses Lush do cling and Turn to dewdrops. |
Atsuyori
56
The Right poem’s use of diction and expression has nothing wrong with it and is entirely appropriate.
